Albert Škarvan (31 January 1869 – 30 March 1926) was a Slovak physician, writer, translator, and Esperantist.

He studied medicine in various towns in Upper Hungary from 1878 to 1886, in Budapest from 1886 to 1887, in Bohemia at the University of Prague from 1887 to 1891, and in Austria, Innsbruck from 1891 to 1894.

He began work as a doctor in Košice (Kassa) in 1895 before moving to Russia in 1896, England in 1897, and Switzerland in 1898.

[2] Škarvan was the personal doctor of Leo Tolstoy and translated some of his works.

[4] In 1907, Škarvan published a Slovak translation of Fundamento de Esperanto in collaboration with N.P.